Tam's Journal

i’ve made a few scrapbook pages over the past few weeks. it feels good to be creating again!

this isn’t one of my favorites, and the photos aren’t that great, but i really wanted to document how lucky our kids are that they have a daddy who LOVES to play with them!

we thought this was our final "family of four" photo….

… but it turns out that THIS was our final family of four photo:

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Read more... | Published: 09/02/10

my friend and photographer bud, carly, posted another SNEAK PEEK from our family photo shoot. i’m getting more and MORE excited to see these photos! and alex’s baby acne is clearing up…. though her cradle cap is massive (and yellow)… poor baby girl!

time for me to go fold some (4 loads of) laundry!

p.s.  i know we never got my new site design up and running here (wasn’t the goal to have it up by the end of february or something like that?), but new changes are coming. i’m not sure when. i’m Ö

Read more... | Published: 09/01/10

for the past several years, i’ve been asking dave to take me to a baseball game… the Seattle Mariners. back when i was still single, my roommate, christy, and i were late to church (or was it work?) one day because we were watching tv – we were watching the city of seattle blow up (or down?) the kingdome (which wasn’t yet paid off…. but don’t get me started). then they built this new stadium… and it’s pretty darn sweet. 

earlier this month, dave received an e-mail invitation from his boss (the owner Ö

Read more... | Published: 08/29/10

though my husband is a wonderful photographer, it’s hard to be the photographer and take photos of your own family if you want to be included in those photos! so on saturday morning we met with my dear friend, Carly of Carly Tee Photography at Lynden City Park for a family photo shoot.

The weather was a little crummy (we won’t talk about how nice it got in the afternoon) and i don’t know WHAT i was thinking by trying to have a family photo shoot with a newborn and all my baby weight, but we had a Ö

Read more... | Published: 08/22/10

Alexandra at (approximately) ONE MONTH:

- hopefully over 7 pounds by now (won’t know her official weight until 2 months)

- stil has a full head of hair (hasn’t lost any yet)

- still has DARK hair (though in good light you can see some brown in it)

- eats well (and quickly – usually on 20 minutes to eat – though burping is another story!)

- sleeps well (she’s already provided one 8-hour nighttime stretch!), though she usually eats every 3-4 hours

- is calmed when Ö

Read more... | Published: 08/20/10